Engines of Our Ingenuity

This special, one-hour Engines episode explores the effect of music in our lives. Music for a While Let us explore the place of music in our lives.  Let us see how it creates calm in our hurried existence – how it opens windows into understanding.  Let us trace its action in our lives, both in the way it is made, and in the many ways it affects us so deeply.

Episode: 2724 Let's be pedants — well, insofar as language allows.  Today, let's be pedants.

Episode: 2816 Sir William Hamilton and the Beginnings of Volcanology.  Today, the beginnings of volcanology.

Episode: 2726 Rigid Origami — much more than a decorative art.  Today, we fold rigid origami.

Episode: 2721 Fort Trumbull -- dramatic, inappropriate, icon of the history of its place.  Today, Fort Trumbull.

Episode: 2708 The first airplane prize, for June Bug's 1-km flight — and what followed.  Today, the first airplane prize.

Episode: 2923 The opossum: nature's little sanitary engineer.  Today, nature's sanitation engineer.

Episode: 2696 Winged Words: The Homeric Epics as Oral Poetry.  Today, classicist Casey Due listens to the Homeric epics.

Episode: 3289 Green Eyed Monster.  Today we consider "Being Green".

Episode: 2705 The Killdeer, a special bird of the waterways.  Today, a special bird.

Episode: 2704 Muscle memory, perfect pitch, typewriters, and engineering design.  Today, muscle memory and engineering design.

Episode: 2702 Octave Chanute, scholarly mentor of the Wright Brothers.  Today, Octave Chanute.

Episode: 2699 Heligoland, a bucolic magnet for the machines of war.  Today, we visit Heligoland.

Episode: 2922 Gearing up: the continuously variable transmission.  Today, we change gears.

Episode: 2740 The mathematics of slot machines.  Today, the mathematics of slot machines.